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      <![CDATA[Thank you Paul, you are bringing Swine Flu to the masses (from the grave)<br>
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(wait, I'm mixing Beatles and Bible references)
        
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      <![CDATA[Buboes are the new faux hawk.
        
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      <![CDATA[While Camus' novel is among the most notable 20th-century literary appropriations of plague (as metaphor, as impetus for existential crisis resolution, as actual event, as invariably eternal associative context through which to reflect on how much it must suck to sit in bed all day counting peas), there is also a rather notable 14th-century appropriation that bears mentioning here, Boccaccio's _Decameron_, not only because it was set during the plague of 1348, but also because it was composed then as well, creating a rather beautiful (even if nothing beautiful came out of the Dark Ages, as certain Enlightenment-centric critics might selfishly maintain) mise-en-abime intertextuality in which Boccaccio, in a physical sense, avoids the plague by staying inside (presumably, or in some coffee shop called, perhaps, Caffe' Anacronista) writing 100 stories told by a group of three men and seven women (no sausage fest there, though even pork sausage would've been safe) who've left Florence for Fiesole to escape the Black Death, and who tell those 100 stories to one another so as to pass the time pleasantly (or in a more productive way than just sitting around texting 'omg plague ttally sux u dead yet? lol' to dying Florentines).
        
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      <![CDATA[Not only did smallpox kill a bunch of English people in wigs, but also like 80% of the Native American population, who were likely not wearing wigs. (I also think it must have had something to do with Edward James Olmos's face, right?)
        
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